Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-16

10 1T a slight advance over last season
prices. While this is gratifying to mann
featuring and jobbing interests, it is not sa'
isfactory to the producing interest. who, q
!. yet have not begun to realize a correspond
ing advance on their productions.
e This inequality must be equalized, and n
y doubt will be, but at present there are n
evidences that it has set in. Millers a
Minneapolis are storing flour for bette
prices. The foreign demand just at presen
r is rather light. The wheat market
K throughout the world are rather excited
This country has 100000 bushels o
wheat available for export. The probable
= tiles are very strong for a Foreign wal il
/: the spring, and sp%eculatols are preparing
to keep the American farming interests il
: the dark through the leading newspapers.
Business is reported improving all ovel
the West where traffic is possible. Woo
+ has advanced in price all over the country
and textile goods are moving up a little OF
account of the rushing in of heavy orders
from retailers. Carpets are quiet owing to
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kinds are scarce and factories are working
full time. All OF the worsted and wooden
mills are crowded with orders in the New
England and Middle States and, generally
speaking, the textile manufacturing inter-
/ ests are in excellent shape.
In Boston boots and shoes are very &C.
tive, but other branches of trade are dull.
At Philadelphia, trading is only moder.
ately active. At New York, a heavy dis
tribution of all kinds of merchandise is
going on. At Cincinnati, leading lines OF
manufactures are very busy. At Pitts
burg, the iron trade is unprecedentedly &C.
tive. At st. Paul. q slight improvement
has taken place. Throughout the North
west great preparations are being made for
enlarging building activity. Throughout
the Southern cities Improvement is appar-
ent, but it is of moderate proportions.
This is the way a labor reformer puts the
case: In 1850 the capitalists owned less
than hall the property of the country. In
1860 they owned over half Of it. In 1870
they owned two-thirds OF it. To-day they
own more than t~hree-fourtns Of it, and at
this rate of progress. he argues, it will take
but fourteen years more for them to own
the entire country. In this connection it
is rather curious to observe that the wages
OF labor have been steadily advancing dur
ne the periods named, and that an hours
or a days labor, or a dollar, will buy
more bread and meat to-day than at any
time.
The North Carolina cotton manufac-
turers are crowded with orders, and people
can have land for nothing who will put up
mills there. A Chester Corliss-engine
builder has just been putting in some en-
gines at Durham, N. c.. Broekside, Tenn,
is turning out 5000, 600 yards of cotton
goods every year, and the Athens, Georgia,
cotton-mills cannot keep up with their or
ders. The Parkesville, Georgia, mill will
double the capacity of the woolen-mill and
erect q bobbing and shuttle-mill. A cot
ton-tnill is to be built at East Birmingham,
Ala, and another cotton-mill is going up
at Camden. Ala. The eilk-mill which was
to be located at Susquehanna, Pa, has
been captured by Phoenixville. A new silk
mill will soon be running in Reading. Car
bondale is bidding fer industrial establish
ments and wants a boot and shoe factory,
woolen-mill and knitting-mill. Coal is Is
cents a ton, and nothing, no taxes for ten
years, and all the girls and women that are
needed at $3.50 to IS per week.
Employers in all directions are more than
anxious to have rates of wages
fixed before the spring trade opens. In
m q NV MI roa fhav oro o1raoI- ,,1,-A~~:i-
advancing wages. In other cases they have
indirectly requested that employees formu-
late demands, in order that they may be
acted upon. Some of the labor o~rganiza-
ions have decided to strike for an advance
their requests be not granted.
Bumbls-bee committees OF Labor are
ouzzing around the Legislatures of some :
states this winter, trying to get laws =
II this, that and the other kind passed, +
Ind the legislators are quietly practicing l
heir game Of ~hide-and-seek and threaten '
ng to start a smoke to scare the bees !;
away. +
Not for years have the makers OF boilers t
n the New England and Middle States been t
Is busy as they are at this time. Nearly =
Ill manufacturers are obliged to increase n
heir steam power capacity in order to u
ompete with %neighbors. Fl
The Labor Commissioner OF Indiana Q
nakes the rather surprising announcement :
hat pauperism has increased SO per cent. r.
] sixteen years, and that the checking of Il
he steady advance of pauperism in this r;
ountry will be one OF the most perplexing II
u~estions of the age. I
A National Master Builders Association
i'll be formed in Boston on March 29th.
he real purpose of the association is to
resent a strong front against labor organ !
ations in demands that may be regarded
The Brooklyn clerks who work seventy. CO
hours a week are ~agitating the ques- h,
on OF closing all stores at z o'clock four t.
ghts in the week, at 9 on Monday and IL T
Saturday night. A
The Lynn shoe manufacturers are not in t.
ined to accept Consul Shoenhoff's state W
emit that the wages in the Lynn factories al
re SO per cent less than the wages in the ii
erman factories. w
A mass convention was held on Saturday F
Springfield, Mo-, to elect delegates to the NJ
ational Labor Convention. Twenty-four
tates have already elected full sets of dele y:
ties. u,
A Belgian textile manufacturer has de- q,
sed a process for tanning textile fabrics, in
.ich renders them waterproof, and proof dl
'ainst decay without increasing their ~
eight. ".
There are now five concerns making pins hi
Connecticut. Foreign manufacturers tn
re good makers for 81 per day, while 90
ages here run from 81 to So. 81
Adjutant-General of Texas has Off tn
ally urged the Legislature to raise a State us
my for the suppression of the knights of tn
abor. ae
A German house has started an agent out n.
a bicycle to sell goods throughout Eu- gi,
pc. be
The New York printers will make a vitor- hi
10 effort to have a State Printing Office W.
tabliehed. ~ ~
The National Convention OF horse-collar We